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Margaret O'Brien
Actor
Born January 15, 1937 (87 years)
Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American film and stage actress. Although her film career as a leading character was brief, she was one of the most popular child actors in cinema history. In her later career, she appeared on stage and in supporting film roles.
She was born Angela Maxine O'Brien; (she later changed her name to Margaret following the success of the film Journey for Margaret, in which she played the title role). Her father Lawrence O'Brien, a circus performer, died before she was born.[1]; Margaret's mother, Gladys Flores, was a well-known flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, also a dancer. Margaret is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry.
She made her first film appearance in Babes on Broadway (1941) at the age of four, but it was the following year that her first major role brought her widespread attention. As a five-year-old in Journey for Margaret (1942), O'Brien won wide praise for her convincing acting style. By 1943, she was considered a big enough star to have a cameo appearance in the all-star military show finale of Thousands Cheer.
She played a young French girl, and spoke and sang all her dialogue with a French accent, in Jane Eyre (1944). Arguably her most memorable role was as "Tootie" in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), opposite Judy Garland. O'Brien had by this time added singing and dancing to her achievements and was rewarded with an Academy Juvenile Award the following year as the "outstanding child actress of 1944." Her other successes included The Canterville Ghost (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and the first sound version of The Secret Garden (1949), but she was unable to make the transition to adult roles.
A 1946 Looney Tunes short, Book Revue, placed a caricature of O'Brien in the role of Little Red Riding Hood.
Margaret later shed her child star image in 1958 by appearing on the cover of Life Magazine with the caption "The Girl's Grown", and was a mystery guest on the TV panel show What's My Line?. O'Brien's acting roles as an adult have been few and far between, mostly in small independent films. However, she does do occasional interviews, mostly for the Turner Classic Movies cable network. She played the role of Betsy Stauffer, a small town nurse, in "The Incident of the Town in Terror" on television's Rawhide. Another rare television outing was as a guest star on the popular Marcus Welby, M.D. in the early 1970s, reuniting Margaret with her Journey For Margaret and The Canterville Ghost co-star Robert Young.
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She was born Angela Maxine O'Brien; (she later changed her name to Margaret following the success of the film Journey for Margaret, in which she played the title role). Her father Lawrence O'Brien, a circus performer, died before she was born.[1]; Margaret's mother, Gladys Flores, was a well-known flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, also a dancer. Margaret is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry.
She made her first film appearance in Babes on Broadway (1941) at the age of four, but it was the following year that her first major role brought her widespread attention. As a five-year-old in Journey for Margaret (1942), O'Brien won wide praise for her convincing acting style. By 1943, she was considered a big enough star to have a cameo appearance in the all-star military show finale of Thousands Cheer.
She played a young French girl, and spoke and sang all her dialogue with a French accent, in Jane Eyre (1944). Arguably her most memorable role was as "Tootie" in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), opposite Judy Garland. O'Brien had by this time added singing and dancing to her achievements and was rewarded with an Academy Juvenile Award the following year as the "outstanding child actress of 1944." Her other successes included The Canterville Ghost (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and the first sound version of The Secret Garden (1949), but she was unable to make the transition to adult roles.
A 1946 Looney Tunes short, Book Revue, placed a caricature of O'Brien in the role of Little Red Riding Hood.
Margaret later shed her child star image in 1958 by appearing on the cover of Life Magazine with the caption "The Girl's Grown", and was a mystery guest on the TV panel show What's My Line?. O'Brien's acting roles as an adult have been few and far between, mostly in small independent films. However, she does do occasional interviews, mostly for the Turner Classic Movies cable network. She played the role of Betsy Stauffer, a small town nurse, in "The Incident of the Town in Terror" on television's Rawhide. Another rare television outing was as a guest star on the popular Marcus Welby, M.D. in the early 1970s, reuniting Margaret with her Journey For Margaret and The Canterville Ghost co-star Robert Young.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2023 | Christmas Couples Retreat · as Mrs. Foxworth |
| 2018 | This Is Our Christmas · as Mrs. Foxworth |
| 2018 | Impact Event · as Amanda |
| 2017 | Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! · as Bridgette's Grandmother |
| 2017 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · as Ms. Stevenson |
| 2016 | Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried · as Cast |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) |
| 1996 | Sunset After Dark · as Betty Corman |
| 1989 | The New Lassie (TV Series) |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Jane |
| 1983 | Tales from the Darkside (TV Series) · as Mildred Webster |
| 1983 | Hotel (TV Series) · as Martha Connelly |
| 1982 | Showbiz Goes to War · as (archive Footage) |
| 1981 | Amy · as Hazel Johnson |
| 1977 | Testimony of Two Men (TV Series) · as Flora Bumpstead Eaton |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! · as (archive Footage) |
| 1971 | |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Miss Walker (segment "love And The Letter") |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as Neva Phillips |
| 1968 | Adam-12 (TV Series) · as Mrs. Pendleton |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Louise Prescott |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) · as Anne Lipscott |
| 1962 | Combat! (TV Series) · as Marianne Fraisnet |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare (TV Series) · as Nurse Lori Palmer |
| 1961 | The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) · as Elsa Thaelman |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Angela Kendricks |
| 1960 | The Aquanauts (TV Series) · as Ellen Marstand |
| 1960 | Heller in Pink Tights · as Della Southby |
| 1959 | Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) · as Phyllis Willoughby |
| 1959 | The June Allyson Show (TV Series) · as Jean |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Betsy Stauffer |
| 1958 | Pursuit (TV Series) · as Mara |
| 1957 | The Night Before Christmas · as Excerpt From Meet Me In St. Louis |
| 1957 | Suspicion (TV Series) · as Marjorie Reardon |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Virginia Trent |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Julie Revere |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Annie Brookes |
| 1956 | Glory · as Clarabel Tilbee |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater (TV Series) |
| 1955 | The Jane Wyman Show (TV Series) · as Nancy |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Chip |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Mary Clayborne |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Sarah Trask |
| 1952 | Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre (TV Series) · as Eleanor Brown |
| 1951 | Her First Romance · as Betty Foster |
| 1951 | The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Laura |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre (TV Series) · as Ginny |
| 1949 | The Secret Garden · as Mary Lennox |
| 1949 | Little Women · as Beth |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Julie Denton |
| 1948 | Big City · as Midge |
| 1948 | Tenth Avenue Angel · as Flavia Mills |
| 1947 | The Unfinished Dance · as 'meg' Merlin |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1946 | Three Wise Fools · as Sheila O'monahan |
| 1946 | Bad Bascomb · as Emmy |
| 1945 | Our Vines Have Tender Grapes · as Selma Jacobson |
| 1944 | Music for Millions · as Mike |
| 1944 | Meet Me in St. Louis · as "tootie" Smith |
| 1944 | The Canterville Ghost · as Lady Jessica De Canterville |
| 1943 | Jane Eyre · as Adele Varens |
| 1943 | Lost Angel · as Alpha |
| 1943 | Madame Curie · as Irene Curie - Age 5 |
| 1943 | Thousands Cheer · as Customer In Red Skelton Skit |
| 1943 | Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case · as Margaret |
| 1942 | Journey for Margaret · as Margaret |
| 1941 | Babes on Broadway · as Maxine (uncredited) |